The Eco-Watch research Citation jet is on assignment to
study a solar storm’s effects on the northern lights in arctic Canada. The routine
data gathering flight is interrupted when a 737 dives through the clouds nearly
causing a midair collision. The Eco-Watch pilot manages to evade the 737.
Co-pilot and Eco-Watch director, Donovan Nash, is horrified to see the jet’s
rear door open and something is shoved out into the deathly cold of the Canadian
winter.
The 737 spirals down in a descent that is one part crash and
one part landing approach. The Jet manages to land on a frozen lake, but the ice
cracks under the jet’s weight, but not before a passenger crawls out a window,
scrambles up the wing, then jumps in the water and struggles to get back on the
firm ice and crawl to the shore.
Nash orders his pilot to find a way to land the Citation on
a distant part of the lake. Nash and a couple of his team trudge through the
snow and find a near frozen woman and bring her back on board the plane. Her
only words before passing out are a warning that they all are going to be
killed. When she wakens, what remains of her memory comes in rare flashes,
little of which are of help in determining her identity or how she came to be
on the doomed flight.
Too much is unknown, so Nash makes the decision to keep as
much about what has happened from both the Canadian and US authorities. The
girl’s warning spooks Nash and puts his wife and daughter, currently on
vacation in Austria, on alert. His wife Lauren is a GIS specialist with the US
and has a rep as being highly resourceful when cornered.
Nash calls on an Eco-Watch employee with diving expertise to
haul a ton of equipment up to join him in Minneapolis so they can get into the
737 now resting at the bottom of the frozen lake. Meanwhile, Lauren and
daughter are targeted by unknowns and on the run to Scotland, then Poland, and
finally the Russian embassy.
This book is #9 in the Donovan Nash series. A ridiculously
fast paced book. I doubt anyone who picks this up will take more than a day or
two to finish. Do I now have to go back through books #1-8? Only time will
tell.
East Coast Don
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